Jeju Island, Korea
October 4-8, 2004

HLT Modules Scalability within the NESPOLE! Project

Hervé Blanchon

Equipe GETA, France

The spoken dialogue translation project NESPOLE! proposed two
showcases in order to focus on two important issues: scalability-namely,
the capability of a system to progressively handle larger
portions of a given domain - and cross-domain portability. Those
concerns were rather new when the project was proposed. ShowCase-1
dealt with limited tourism, while ShowCase-2 consisted of
ShowCase-2a on extended tourism (thus focusing on scalability) and
ShowCase-2b on a medical domain (thus focusing on cross-domain
portability). In this article, we address the issue of scalability for the
French analysis and generation modules in the tourism domain. We
discuss ShC-1 and ShC-2a evaluations results and evaluate our
progress.